(L-R) Marques Houston and his wife Miya attend the premiere of “No Way Out” at LOOK Dine-In Cinemas Glendale on April 10, 2023 in Glendale, California. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
*Marques Houston says he married a woman twenty years younger than him because women his age come with “baggage and kids”.
The Actor and R&B singer often faces criticism about their age gap — he’s 41 and his wife, Miya Dickey, is 22. In 2020, Houston was 38 when he proposed to Miya who was 19 at the time. They welcomed their first child in 2021.
Houston explained to Page Six why he had no interest in marrying a woman his own age.
“A red flag to me [was]always with a woman that had a kid,” he said. “Nothing against single women, but single mothers with children are a red flag for me.”
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Marques Houston – Miya (Instagram)
The “Sister Sister” star continued, “I tip my hat and respect women that are raising children on their own. But when I grew up, I never really wanted to have kids.”
Per Page Six, he elaborated, “I would talk to my dad a lot, and he would always tell me to have your own kids because you never know what the baby daddy‘s are about. So if you’re gonna have kids, make sure it is with a woman that never had kids. So that was always my red flag… and a woman with an attitude. I don’t like women with funky attitudes.”
“I’m 41, she is 22. I could’ve married a 44-year-old woman, and it could’ve been disastrous,” Houston said.
“Women that are my age… they kind of have a different outlook on life. Like a lot of women my age are very independent. They are very like, ‘I don’t need a man to do this for me ’cause I can do it for myself.’ I come from a generation that I love to provide for my wife,” he shared.
According to Houston, his wife is “everything that I wanted in a woman.”
“There’s a lot of women my age I’ve dated, they may have baggage. They may have kids, they may not. There’s so many different women I’ve been with throughout my life, and it just so happens to be that this one [Miya] caught my heart. Everything that I prayed for — and everything that I wanted in a woman — she came with. Although she was young, I’m young in spirit,” he explained.
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